Written in Sand
(Author Unknown)
Two friends were walking and at a certain point of their trip they argued, and because of anger, one offended the other with unjustified insults. The other, offended, having nothing to say, wrote on the sand: “Today, my best friend offended me.” They continued ahead and arrived at an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The offended one started to drown, and his friend saved him.
When he recuperated he took the stylus and wrote on a stone: “Today, my best friend saved my life”. Intrigued, the friend asked: “Why, after I insulted you, you wrote on the sand and now instead you write on a stone?”
Smiling the other friend answered: “When a friend offends us, we should write on the sand, where the wind of forgetfulness and forgiveness will be in charge of obliterating it. But when he helps us, we should engrave it on the stone of the heart-memory, where no wind will be able to erase it.”